About 5.6 million people visited Munich’s Oktoberfest – also known as Wiesn – which ended on Monday. This was a drop of 300,000 compared to the previous year and the lowest number of visitors since the September 11th 2001 attacks in the US. That year, 5.5 million people visited the beer fest.

Last year’s Oktoberfest also found a decline in visitors, with a fall of 400,000 individuals from 2014 to 5.9 million.

Munich heightened security measures amid terror worries that were continuing throughout Europe and in the aftermath of recent violent assaults in southern Germany. In the exact same week, train passengers were assaulted by a teenager in Würzburg with an ax and a guy blew himself up outside a music festival in Ansbach.